ADAM MUSA

📰 September 23 marks 25 years since Swedish-Eritrean journalist #DawitIsaak was forcibly disappeared and arbitrarily detained by Eritrean authorities. Arrested alongside several fellow journalists in September 2001, Mr. Isaak and his colleagues are now the world’s longest-detained journalists. The RWCHR along with a broad international coalition of human rights groups is urging 🇸🇪 Swedish and 🇪🇺 EU officials to take meaningful action on his case while there is still time. Read the full press release here 👇 raoulwallenbergcentre.org/en…

⚖️Free the #Eritrea16 🇪🇷 Detained newspaper editor Amanuel Asrat was also a leading poet and songwriter and the most popular art critic of his time. He set up writers’ clubs across Eritrea and is credited for a national poetry resurgence in the early 2000s. September marks the 25th anniversary of the arrest of the Eritrea 16, among the longest-detained journalists in the world. They have been arbitrarily imprisoned, without trial or access to their families, for a quarter of a century. Several are feared dead. CPJ calls on Eritrean authorities to account for these journalists’ health, whereabouts, and legal status. Their families have a right to know. Read more: cpj.org/awards/the-eritrea-1…

#Malta: Businessman Yorgen Fenech, who was accused of commissioning the murder of investigative journalist #DaphneCaruanaGalizia in 2017, was acquitted by a Maltese court on Wednesday. CPJ stands by Daphne's devastated family whose quest for justice in this shocking case has been relentless.